The future student house occupies the building site on the campus grounds as a powerful solitaire. Its sculptural expression and vertical proportions make the rather small student house a special element of student life on the Westend campus. The building's lively mix of uses is already evident in its varying external appearance. The seamless façade made of beige-colored in-situ concrete is fully bush-hammered by a stonemason, exposing the aggregates of the concrete and giving the building an attractive mineral porosity. The result is a sandstone-colored monolith that blends in perfectly with the ensemble of surrounding natural stone buildings. All functional areas of the student building have their own address in the shared vertical foyer. This communicative circulation space is staggered as an open sequence of rooms from the basement to the 4th floor and becomes the identity-forming center of the building.
Competition 2014
2nd prize